George Bernard Shaw once stated, “God created us in his image and we decided to return the favor.” Genesis 11 illustrates Shaw’s statement in a most vivid manner. The story of the tower of Babel comes at the end of the first major section of the Hebrew Bible. Some introductory thoughts might be helpful here. [...]
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June 2, 2009
Who is the working poor?
In reading Responsive Labor: A Theology of Work (Jenson, 2006) [a full coming review soon], I am reminded of how we Christians [particularly in the west] see our work as meaning in life. The result of this thinking many times allows us to classify those without work as less meaningful in this world. Jenson, in [...]
May 22, 2009
Rearranging Chairs….
Recently there has been much discussion about the musings of an invited guest at the regional FBFI meeting. This speaker, Pastor Sweatt, challenged young fundamentalists [YF] believers with a Calvinistic view using the usual straw man, frayed arguments found in a freshman college theology class. His point, apparently, was to connect the belief of Calvinism [...]
